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• Former U.S. President Carter says he no longer needs cancer treatments

  06-03-2016 22:50
  (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Sunday that he will no longer need treatment for melanoma, a type of skin cancer that had spread to his liver and brain, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reported. The 91-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner will continue to be observed by doctors, but will not need treatment with a promising immunotherapy drug that helps the body's immune system target cancer cells, the newspaper said, quoting his nonprofit public policy centre, the
  
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• Bio-cremation: why burn a body when you can dissolve it?

  06-03-2016 21:36 via cbc.ca
  
  Up until recently, most Canadians have had limited options after death: be buried or be burned. But Dale Hilton says there is a better way, called bio-cremation. He says that once people get past the squeamishness about rapidly decomposing bodies, they will see the environmental benefits.
  
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• France's oldest nuclear plant to close this year: minister

  06-03-2016 18:46
  
  France is to close down its oldest nuclear power plant, at the centre of a row with neighbouring Germany and Switzerland, by the end of this year, a green minister said Sunday.
  
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• Health Canada to drop required pesticide safety test using beagles

  06-03-2016 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  In a decision that could stop hundreds of beagles from being killed every year, Health Canada is planning to end its requirement for mandatory one-year pesticide safety tests using dogs in the coming weeks, concluding the study is not necessary.
  
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• Environment Canada says spring will be warmer than normal

  06-03-2016 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  El Nino has contributed to a milder than usual winter for most of the country and will help continue the warming trend into March, April and May, meteorologists say.
  
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• VIDEO: Filming 'world's deepest' under-ice dive

  06-03-2016 16:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russian explorers claim they have set a new record for the world's deepest under-ice dive.
  
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• Mind’s healing powers put to the test in new book

  06-03-2016 15:00
  
  Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body investigates the brain’s role in keeping people healthy.
  
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• Iran says court sentences billionaire to death in graft case

  06-03-2016 12:30
  A court in Iran has sentenced to death Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani and two accomplices for embezzlement, the judiciary said on Sunday, in a case widely watched due to the billionaire's prominent role in helping the government evade oil sanctions. The Islamic court convicted the defendants of "spreading corruption on earth", a capital offence, and ordered them to repay funds embezzled from, among others, state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohsen
  
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• HIV/AIDS long-term costs high -- and unaffordable to most-affected countries

  06-03-2016 06:00
  
  (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) There will be a significant shortfall in the funding needed for HIV control in sub-Saharan Africa in the coming years and those countries with the highest HIV burden will be unable to meet their obligations on their own to sustain control efforts.
  
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• Chinese smog has silver lining for mask makers

  06-03-2016 05:13
  
  The steel plants and cement factories scattered across China's Shandong province have made it one of the most contaminated areas of the world's biggest polluter. But for one company, that just makes the business climate better.
  
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• Indigenous game designer challenges stereotypes

  06-03-2016 02:29 via cbc.ca
  
  Being a woman in the gaming industry is a challenge. When you're an indigenous woman, there's an extra level of stereotype and accepted violence that has to be challenged.
  
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• Fossilized lizard, 99 million years old, is a clue to 'lost ecosystem'

  06-03-2016 00:53
  A fossilized lizard found in Southeast Asia preserved in amber dates back some 99 million years, Florida scientists have determined, making it the oldest specimen of its kind and a "missing link" for reptile researchers. The lizard is some 75 million years older than the previous record holder, according to researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who announced the finding this week. "It was incredibly exciting to see these animals for the first time," Edward Stanley, a member of th
  
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• Scientists discover 'ghostlike' octopus off Hawaii

  06-03-2016 00:52
  
  Scientists have discovered a "ghostlike" octopus in deep water off Hawaii that appears to belong to a previously unknown species, researchers said.
  
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